Congress leader C Damodar’s wife Padmini Reddy joins BJP

In a shot in the arm for BJP in Telangana, social worker Padmini Reddy, wife of senior Congress leader C Damodar Rajanarasimha, joined the party here Thursday. Rajanarasimha was the deputy Chief Minister in undivided Andhra Pradesh when N Kiran Kumar Reddy was Chief Minister. Welcoming her into the BJP fold, state BJP president K Laxman said Padmini Reddy had made a name for herself with her social work in Medak region and also among women.

He said the Modi government appointed a woman, who is married into a Telugu family, as the country’s Defence Minister (Nirmala Sitharaman) and made another woman leader as the Lok Sabha Speaker (Sumitra Mahajan).